#russia

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#heat #horrible #imaginable #instrument #martyrdom

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#get #go #hate #i #i love

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#failure #proletariat #republic #russian #socialist

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#communism #english #form #government #king

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#game #grand #life #prize #roulette

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#came #carrying #day #distributing #few

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#back #because #collapsed #come #else

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#enemy #georgia #need #russia

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#help #real #real reform #reform #russia